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central banks. Overall, our results suggest that central bank communication contains systematic biases that could lead to …
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This paper investigates the effectiveness of the media transmission channel of the Federal Reserve (Fed) communication … with the general public. Spanning a 20-year period (2003-2023), around 5,400 Fed communication documents and 333 … media, while other topics such as inflation forecasts show varied effectiveness. Changes in the Fed's communication style …
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We ask how central banks can change their communication in order to receive greater newspaper coverage. We write down a … communication in such a way that newspapers choose to report it, while still retaining the message the central bank wishes to convey … measures of news coverage in order to determine what causes central bank communication to be reported on will likely prove to …
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The decision-making process in the ECB's Governing Council remains opaque as the ECB, in contrast to many other central banks, does not publish the votes for or against a policy proposal. In this paper, we construct an index of dissent based on the ECB presidents' answers to journalists'...
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We study the bank lending channel in Switzerland over three decades using unbalanced quarterly bank-individual data spanning 1987 to 2016. In contrast to the usual empirical approach, we take an agnostic stance on which bank characteristic drives the heterogenous lending response to interest...
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We propose a method for estimating a subset of the parameters of a structural rational expectations model by exploiting changes in policy. We define a class of models, midway between a vector autoregression and a structural model, that we call the recoverable structure. As an application of our...
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This paper proposes a simple framework for analyzing a continuum of monetary policy rules characterized by differing degrees of credibility, in which commitment and discretion become special cases of what we call quasi commitment. The monetary policy authority is assumed to formulate optimal...
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In this paper we address the issue of how transmission uncertainty could affect the choice between a federal monetary policy based on national data and one on aggregated data. We find that the uncertainty about the transmission process increases the need to take into account information about...
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Over the past 15 years there has been remarkable progress in the specification and estimation of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models. Central banks in developed and emerging market economies have become increasingly interested in their usefulness for policy analysis and...
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For the academic audience, this paper presents the outcome of a well-identified, large change in the monetary policy rule from the lens of a standard New Keynesian model and asks whether the model properly captures the effects. For policymakers, it presents a cautionary tale of the dismal...
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